Abby L. Harvey
GHG Monitor
10/23/2015
John Kasich, governor of Ohio and Republican presidential candidate, late last week released an energy plan calling for, among other actions, the repeal of the Environmental Protection Agency’s recently finalized regulations on carbon emissions. The regulation targeted is the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, which regulates carbon emissions from existing coal-fired power plants by requiring states to meet federally set emissions reduction goals.
Kasich, currently polling 10th in the field of 14 candidates, said in his energy plan that within his first 100 days as president he will “send Congress a comprehensive plan that creates the climate for job creation by balancing the budget in eight years, cutting taxes for families and businesses, reining in federal regulations, tearing down barriers to increased energy production, and returning major federal responsibilities back to our states and communities where they can be performed more efficiently and responsively to serve Americans."
The Kasich plan would also institute a yearlong freeze on any new major regulations, call on Congress to require mandatory cost-benefit analysis in rulemaking “so regulations don’t do more harm than good,” and require congressional approval for any regulation costing the economy more than $100 million.
“By making government smaller, less costly and more responsive to our needs we can get our economy going again and have the resources to secure our nation, strengthen our families and communities, and reach our God-given potential,” Kasich writes.
